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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace
Danielle Keats Citron · Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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Most Internet users are familiar with trolling -- aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site's comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious,... |
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Rosa Brooks · Simon & Schuster Pages: 438 Format: Print book
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A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security.... |
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Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
Greg Gutfeld · Crown Forum; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool. From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst,... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks of it.The... |
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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals
JEREMY MCCARTER · Random House Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them?... |
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Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success
Michael D'Antonio · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 400 Format: Print book
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In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American businessman had played the role of provocateur so often that pundits, reporters, and voters... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · Harper Pages: 264 Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."... |
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God is Not Here: A Soldier's Struggle with Torture, Trauma, and the Moral Injuries of War
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Russell Edmonds · Pegasus Books Pages: 312 Format: Hardcover
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God Is Not Here is a powerful and intimate look into torture and its effect on both the tortured and the torturer.In May of 2005, the U.S. government finally acknowledged that the invasion of Iraq had spawned an insurgency. With that admission, training the Iraqi Forces suddenly became... |
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
Ada Calhoun · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks -- the epicenter of American cool.St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation... |
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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Allen Kurzweil · Harpercollins Format: Hardcover
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The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry,... |
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Secret Plan for America
Nancy Maclean · Viking Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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"[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right . . ." - The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville · Blue Rider Press Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991
Robert Service · PublicAffairs Pages: 688 Format: Hardcover
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The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes.... |
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